Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Sometimes She's A Little Scary

We’ve been hit with a language bomb in the McMurrey household.
Our baby girl who a month ago used to spout out phrases like “Mommy read” and “Daddy
kiss”, has now graduated to a much more sophisticated manner of speaking worthy
of her toddlerhood. It seemed to happen overnight. Some of Marryn’s recent bon
mots have included the following:

“Daddy’s panties have flags on them.” Ben would want me to
explain here that she is referring to his boxers.
He does not, in fact, wear panties,
but that’s how M sees them.

“Trust me Mommy. It goes here,” after I questioned her
puzzle solving capabilities.

“My medicine is purple. It’s sweet” Has anyone else had a
cough the entire month of October?

"I’ll see you later,” as I dropped her off at school. It’s a
shame she has such trouble transitioning at school drop off. Yeah right.

This is her "get a load of this"expression.Marryn has also apparently developed a sense of memory
recall more suited to an aged pachyderm. She remembers A LOT, especially the
things I’d rather she didn’t. Like when I say “Dangit” and “Heck”. (Granted these
are tame “curse” words, but it’s still jarring to hear them coming out of a two
year olds mouth.) We’ll go weeks without seeing someone, and she will bring
them up out of the blue, and talk about the last time we saw them. I will hide
the leftover Halloween candy, and like the annoying kid at the carnival who
wins all the games and makes the carnies mad, she finds the secret cabinet. She
knows that My Little Pony is on TV on the weekends instead of Dora The
Explorer.

I sound like I’m bragging, but really I’m just amazed. When
did she get so with it? What will she
say next? Is my child an evil genius? More importantly, will these recent
developments make her easier to potty train? Dangit, I hope to heck it’s so.

About Me

We met in 2002 in college (Specifically in a Dallas bar at OU/TX, but that’s a story for another time.), and married in April of 2006. Ben is a medical sales rep and I work in the oil & gas industry. We live in Fort Worth where we enjoy spending time with friends and our knucklehead Ridgebacks, Boz and AD.